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Lemme know if there's a better place to post this: Apparently there was a bomb scare amongst two US airliners in Atlanta today. All passengers have been safely evacuated, search is currently in progress: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-30971220
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 00:41 |
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, this Sarah Palin speech in its entirety. I love parentheticals, but she loving LOVES PARENTHETICALS
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 00:43 |
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Grouchio posted:Lemme know if there's a better place to post this:
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 00:50 |
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Joementum posted:Quote of the day, this Sarah Palin speech in its entirety. I can't stand actually listening to her talk but I'd be interested in a transcript if and when one pops up.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:04 |
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:I can't stand actually listening to her talk but I'd be interested in a transcript if and when one pops up. quote:I won't forget the men who died, who gave that away And I'd gladly stand up next to you and defend her still today 'Cause there ain't no doubt I love this land God bless the USA From the lakes of Minnesota, to the hills of Tennessee Across the plains of Texas, from sea to shining sea From Detroit down to Houston and New York to LA
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:09 |
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Oh, you just scratched together an emulator, didn't you.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:13 |
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:I can't stand actually listening to her talk but I'd be interested in a transcript if and when one pops up. http://anamariecox.tumblr.com/post/109048029529/palins-performance-art quote:I THANK YOU SO MUCH. IT IS SO GREAT TO BE BACK IN IOWA. WE HAVE GREAT MEMORIES HERE. MANY TRIPS THAT WE HAVE BEEN BLESSED TO TAKE HERE. THE 2008 CAMPAIGN. THEN EVEN MORE FUN, THE TEA PARTY RALLY WE HAD. THAT WAS FUN. WE HAVE HAD FRIED EVERYTHING YOUR STATE FAIR. OF COURSE, ONE YEAR THINKING THAT AFTER THE SAY ARE, I WAS GOING TO WORK SOME OF IT OFF, WE DRIVE UP TO STORM LAKE. I THINK THERE IS A HALF MARATHON GOING ON. I CAN GO INCOGNITO AND GO SEE THIS RACE. INCOGNITO. IT MEANS FOR ME NO MAKEUP. And so on.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:16 |
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"Uncorrected closed caption transcript, just cut-and-pasted from C-SPAN. It seems to lack an ending but otherwise pretty good window into the madness." No, that sounds about right.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:17 |
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quote:{transcript ends, quite possibly due to an act of a merciful God} No foolin'.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:26 |
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SnakePlissken posted:Oh, you just scratched together an emulator, didn't you. http://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/ It was the product of a frantic google search for a markov chain generator.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:28 |
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Ugh, she reminded me that Ernst is an Iowa senator. Cannot wait for her to be voted out in 6 years.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:40 |
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420DD Butts posted:Ugh, she reminded me that Ernst is an Iowa senator. Cannot wait for her to be voted out in 6 years. Speaking of Joni Culver Ernst... quote:It has almost become a cliche that the politicians who bray the loudest about cutting government waste and slashing "entitlements" turn out to have learned what they know about the government trough from the inside. Big surprise, her family are ag sub-collecting welfare queens. Also 20% of the people in her county are on food stamps but she wants to cut that too.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:43 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Speaking of Joni Culver Ernst... They're not welfare queens they're
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:46 |
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FAUXTON posted:http://projects.haykranen.nl/markov/demo/ I think it wouldn't be too hard to do one for Huckabee too.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:47 |
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DemeaninDemon posted:They're not welfare queens they're Rising blood sugar bouys all boats.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:54 |
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Lote posted:Rising blood sugar bouys all boats. Someone's gotta get paid to chop off diabetic infectious feet.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 01:58 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:Speaking of Joni Culver Ernst... I just assume all Republicans that talk about "government excess" are hypocrites that benefited from federal aid throughout their life at this point.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 02:02 |
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I was laughing the other day when this rich high school classmate of mine posted a Milton Friedman quote saying "if you put the government in charge of the Sahara there would be a shortage of sand within a few years" or something like that. This from a guy who went to public K-12, has went to two public universities, drives on government-built and government-maintained roads, can fly from here to his university in the Mountain West without crashing into another plane and dying thanks to government oversight of airspace... These Randian supermen are almost invariably two steps removed from Craig T. Nelson. "I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone ever help me out? No!" Jerry Manderbilt fucked around with this message at 02:14 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I was laughing the other day when this rich high school classmate of mine posted a Milton Friedman quote saying "if you put the government in charge of the Sahara there would be a shortage of sand within a few years" or something like that. This from a guy who went to public K-12, has went to two public universities, drives on government-built and government-maintained roads... That one guy being "Coach" Craig T Nelson.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 02:07 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I was laughing the other day when this rich high school classmate of mine posted a Milton Friedman quote saying "if you put the government in charge of the Sahara there would be a shortage of sand within a few years" or something like that. This from a guy who went to public K-12, has went to two public universities, drives on government-built and government-maintained roads... The proper term is gently caress wad.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 02:08 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:I was laughing the other day when this rich high school classmate of mine posted a Milton Friedman quote saying "if you put the government in charge of the Sahara there would be a shortage of sand within a few years" or something like that. Well, to be fair, there have been a number of government plans to flood the Sahara. Napoleon's for example:
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 02:11 |
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:These Randian supermen are almost invariably two steps removed from that one guy who said "I've been on welfare and food stamps. Did anyone ever help me out? No!" Better known as TV's Coach, Craig T. Nelson E: drat it, beaten like a black guy at a police station
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 02:13 |
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420DD Butts posted:I just assume all Republicans that talk about "government excess" are hypocrites that benefited from federal aid throughout their life at this point. I dont know if they're hypocrites or they just dont realize the federal aid they've received through out their lives. I cant imagine there's anyone in the country who hasn't benefited from federal aid at some point.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 02:14 |
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Captain_Maclaine posted:Hah, like that they aren't planning on doing exactly that concerning a Mr. Benjamin G. Hazi that we've all heard so much about. There are serious problems with the way "college educations" are funded these days. Outlandish tuition costs outstripping inflation, job earnings and the "added value" of the degree, paid for by undischargeable debt given out freely to 18 year olds with poor long-term planning skills. Wanting some sort of confirmed ROI on a expensive college education seems pretty rational. College is certainly the key to a lot of dead-end entry-level white collar jobs, so there's plenty out there for the philosophy/art history set, but wanting a useful skillset for adult life to be included in a $80-$250k price tag doesn't sound unreasonable.
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Meat Recital posted:I dont know if they're hypocrites or they just dont realize the federal aid they've received through out their lives. I cant imagine there's anyone in the country who hasn't benefited from federal aid at some point. It seems like people who are against federal aid just don't view something as aid if it's not spelled out as such. Literally everyone benefits from "socialism" in America: roads, police, firefighters, paramedics, and every other service that you're not paying a specific fee for is paid for by your taxes. Public schools are paid for by your taxes. America has always been a capitalist/socialist hybrid rather than purely capitalist, which is why you're not billed when the cops show up to help you. But since it's not called "federal aid" and your taxes don't say exactly what every dollar goes to, they just kinda view it as a cost of some sort and ignore it. Keep in mind that if you look at any politician, he's likely to be woefully out of touch with reality even if he's a decent guy. These are people who often don't know how to drive themselves or maintain their own house, let alone understand what life is like below the poverty line, because they've often had years of people being paid to do poo poo for them.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 04:30 |
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chitoryu12 posted:It seems like people who are against federal aid just don't view something as aid if it's not spelled out as such. Literally everyone benefits from "socialism" in America: roads, police, firefighters, paramedics, and every other service that you're not paying a specific fee for is paid for by your taxes. Public schools are paid for by your taxes. America has always been a capitalist/socialist hybrid rather than purely capitalist, which is why you're not billed when the cops show up to help you. But since it's not called "federal aid" and your taxes don't say exactly what every dollar goes to, they just kinda view it as a cost of some sort and ignore it. Cops are a bad example of that though because they really don't have anything to do with the federal government. They're an entity of the city you're in and are primarily funded by the state. Yes, they receive federal grants but that's a very far way from saying that they're paid for with your taxes.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 05:05 |
computer parts posted:Cops are a bad example of that though because they really don't have anything to do with the federal government. They're an entity of the city you're in and are primarily funded by the state. Yes, they receive federal grants but that's a very far way from saying that they're paid for with your taxes. So what funds them?
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 06:09 |
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chitoryu12 posted:So what funds them? The state government, which most conservatives would agree has a legitimate place (the ones that don't think that the county sheriff is the only legitimate lawman. Also they are named Bundy).
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 06:12 |
computer parts posted:The state government, which most conservatives would agree has a legitimate place (the ones that don't think that the county sheriff is the only legitimate lawman. Also they are named Bundy). They're still funded by taxes though, right?
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 06:19 |
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computer parts posted:The state government, which most conservatives would agree has a legitimate place (the ones that don't think that the county sheriff is the only legitimate lawman. Also they are named Bundy). Where does the state government get the money to give grants to municipal cops?
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 06:21 |
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HBNRW posted:Where does the state government get the money to give grants to municipal cops? The taxpayers?
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 07:27 |
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At any rate, given the airline bomb threats, should I still fly to Georgia come feburary holiday?
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 08:01 |
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Grouchio posted:At any rate, given the airline bomb threats, should I still fly to Georgia come feburary holiday? I don't always fly to Georgia, but when I do, I fly under the shadow of a bomb threat.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 08:47 |
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repeating posted:I don't always fly to Georgia, but when I do, I fly under the shadow of a bomb threat. It's like flying right after a plane crash! It just happened, the odds of it happening again so quickly is absolutely minuscule and you'll have to pay less to fly due to the scare! it's a win/win!
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 09:26 |
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BatteredFeltFedora posted:I can't stand actually listening to her talk but I'd be interested in a transcript if and when one pops up. Every time she says "so, anyway," take a shot
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 11:54 |
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Eat_at_Milliways posted:Every time she says "so, anyway," take a shot Please don't encourage poster to kill themselves.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 15:46 |
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Double your pleasure, double your fun. So glad I went to Detroit yesterday instead of listened to these people talk. http://youtubedoubler.com/epvx
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 15:52 |
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HUGE PUBES A PLUS posted:Double your pleasure, double your fun. So glad I went to Detroit yesterday instead of listened to these people talk.
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# ? Jan 25, 2015 16:11 |
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Grouchio posted:You're...glad you went to Detroit? America's industrial corpse? Detroit (including its metropolitan area) is much more alive than vast areas of the Rust Belt. computer parts fucked around with this message at 16:20 on Jan 25, 2015 |
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There was more life in Detroit yesterday than in Iowa. Intelligent life anyway.
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